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The Missionary Generation is the designation given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to that generation in the United States of America born from 1860 to 1882. They became the indulged home-and-hearth children of the post- Civil War era. They came of age as labor anarchists, campus rioters, and ambitious first graduates of black and women's colleges. In rising adulthood, they had an Awakening that had given birth to the Bible Belt, to Christian socialism, to Greenwich Village, to the Wobblies, and to renascent labor, temperance, and women's suffrage movements. Their young adults pursued rural populism, settlement house work, missionary crusades, and muckrake journalism. In midlife, their Decency brigades and fundamentalists imposed Prohibition, cracked down on immigration, and organized vice squads. In elderhood, they presided over the twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II. Their elder elite became the Wise Old Men who enacted a New Deal (and Social Security) for the benefit of youth, led a global war against fascism, and reaffirmed America's highest ideals during a transformative era in history.

In Strauss and Howe's Generations categorization, The Missionaries' typical grandparents were of the Transcendental Generation. Their parents were of the Gilded GenerationThe Gilded Generation is the name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for the generation of Americans born from 1822 to 1842. This generation included the Gold Rush Forty-niners who made circa-1850 San Francisco, California t and Progressive GenerationThe Progressive Generation is a name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1843 to 1859. The Progressives were caught in an odd warp of history, as the Civil War saeculum did not have. Their children were of the Lost GenerationThe Lost Generation also refers to the ex-Red Guards in China. See Red Guards (China). The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Significant members i and G.I. GenerationGeneration is the generation of Americans that fought and won World War II, later to become the Establishment and the parents who had a generation gap with their Boomer children. The generation is also known as the Greatest Generation (after Tom Brokaw's; their typical grandchildren were of the Silent GenerationThe name Silent Generation was coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time to refer to the generation coming of age at the time. The phrase gained further currency after William Manchester's comment that the members of this generation were "withdra.

23% of the Missionaries were immigrants; 1% were slaves at any point in their lives.

A sample list of Missionary celebrities includes the following members, with birth and death dates as this generation is fully ancestral:

The Missionaries had four U.S. Presidents: Warren G. Harding (1865-1923), Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945). They held a plurality in the House of Representatives from 1909 to 1937, a plurality in the Senate from 1917 to 1943, and a majority of the Supreme Court from 1925 to 1943.

Prominent non-U.S. peers of the Missionaries include Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), V. I. Lenin (1870-1924), Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).

Sample cultural endowments include the following:

The last member of the Missionary Generation, the American Sarah Knauss, died on December 30, 1999.

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